This castle belonged to the Nerli family (one of the wealthiest in Florence during the 15th century) and was part of a system of fortifications in the Soffiano area. In the following century, a walled garden and a Renaissance loggia were created. During the seventeenth century, ownership passed to the Galli family (for this reason the entire surrounding area began to be called "Torre Galli"). Today the restored Baroque frescoes attributed to Baccio del Bianco, the Italianate garden with its nymphaeum loggia, and other gardens with entryways, as well as all the external parts of the building complex can be visited by appointment.
Via Torre Galli
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Tours: the last Sunday morning of every month except August from 8.00am to 2.00pm, also every penultimate Sunday in September
NENNI - TORREGALLI
661 mt
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Although the structure we see today - officially called the New Hospital of San Giovanni di Dio, but known to all as the Torregalli Hospital given the proximity to the Castle of Torre Galli, dates fro [...]
NENNI - TORREGALLI
495 mt
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A typically 17th century portico with lowered arches conceals this simple little Romanesque church. San Giusto a Signano, situated on the street of the same name in an area which was once a Roman sett [...]
NENNI - TORREGALLI
860 mt
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A medieval fortress, a countryside villa for the great Renaissance families Nerli, Argenti, Tani and, eventually, the home of one of the leading exponents of neoclassical and Napoleonic art in Tuscany [...]
ARCIPRESSI
447 mt
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Dating back to the 1960s, this church was built in reinforced concrete (not coincidentally in the years when Pier Luigi Nervi, master of this material, built the Church of the Sacred Heart in Florence [...]
NENNI - TORREGALLI
1.3 km
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We are in Soffiano Alta, on a small hill, in the past considered the ideal place to build fortifications. Built in Romanesque style, the Church of Santa Maria a Soffiano was the Lambardi family castle [...]
ARCIPRESSI
508 mt
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It is a little-known fact that the sequence of frescoes Famous Men and Women by Andrea del Castagno, which are now on display in the former Church of San Pier Scheraggio ( at the Uffizi Gallery), was [...]
RESISTENZA
824 mt
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It is the heart of Scandicci and until a few years ago it housed the town hall which was then moved to the adjacent Resistance area. But it is here that city life had its most important moments, and t [...]
RESISTENZA
699 mt
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It was the first theatre in Scandicci and its origins date back to 1860 when it began as a philharmonic society. Inside it still has works by Macchiaiolo painter Federico Andreotti, and is today [...]
